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One of the haunting things about Russia under Stalin was it was the dawn of Photoshop, and the Kremlin was constantly retouching official photographs to make people disappear. In the original picture Stalin has his arm around your shoulder, but then he kills you, and when it’s reissued he’s cuddling up to a dull patch of Leningrad sky.

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Last month, workers at a Nissan plant in Mississippi overwhelmingly voted not to join the United Auto Workers union. Bernie Sanders was fighting the good fight; he went down to Mississippi to march, he wrote op-eds, he talked up the vote on TV. But the union lost once again and, with UAW members now only building 54 percent of the cars and trucks manufactured in the U.S. (it was 85 percent in 1999), if things don’t change soon the union’s going to disappear altogether.